GCP retirements, end of support dates and breaking changes from Nov 2026 to Oct 2028

Due in 6 days, 19 Nov 202619 Nov 2026

gemini-3.6-flash retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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Due in 12 days, 25 Nov 202625 Nov 2026

discovery stops without a designated project

GCPCloud Number RegistryBreaking change

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Due in 18 days, Dec 2026Dec 2026 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

SLES 15 SP4 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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Due in 18 days, Dec 2026Dec 2026 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

SLES 15 SP4 image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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Due in 30 days, 13 Dec 202613 Dec 2026

gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In 60 days, 12 Jan 202712 Jan 2027

Windows Server 2016 image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In 76 days, 28 Jan 202728 Jan 2027

gemini-3.7-flash retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In 79 days, 31 Jan 202731 Jan 2027

Data Transfer Service Shopify connector field support removal

GCPBigQueryBreaking change

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In 80 days, 1 Feb 20271 Feb 2027

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) shutdown

GCPSecurity Command CenterRetirement

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In 90 days, 11 Feb 202711 Feb 2027

Kubernetes 1.32 end of extended support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 4 months, Mar 2027Mar 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

COS 121 LTS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 4 months, 2 Mar 20272 Mar 2027

Go 1.24 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 4 months, 15 Mar 202715 Mar 2027

gemini-2.5-flash-image retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

Go 1.25 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 5 months, Apr 2027Apr 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Accelerated with NVIDIA driver version 580 image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 5 months, Apr 2027Apr 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 5 months, Apr 2027Apr 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS optimized for TPUs image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

multimodalembedding@001 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-embedding-004 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-embedding-005 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-multilingual-embedding-002 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 4 Apr 20274 Apr 2027

Python 3.10 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 5 months, 11 Apr 202711 Apr 2027

Kubernetes 1.35 end of standard support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 6 months, May 2027May 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 8.8 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 6 months, May 2027May 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 9.2 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 6 months, May 2027May 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 9.6 EUS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 6 months, May 2027May 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 10.0 EUS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 6 months, 10 May 202710 May 2027

.NET 8 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 7 months, 31 May 202731 May 2027

CentOS Stream 9 image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 7 months, 12 Jun 202712 Jun 2027

Kubernetes 1.33 end of extended support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 7 months, 16 Jun 202716 Jun 2027

customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEKs) shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 8 months, 30 Jun 202730 Jun 2027

PHP 8.2 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 9 months, 1 Aug 20271 Aug 2027

NVIDIA P4 GPU shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 9 months, 1 Aug 20271 Aug 2027

NVIDIA T4 GPU shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 9 months, 9 Aug 20279 Aug 2027

Kubernetes 1.36 end of standard support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 10 months, Sep 2027Sep 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

COS 125 LTS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

Ruby 3.3 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 11 months, Oct 2027Oct 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

SLES 12 SP5 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 12 months, 31 Oct 202731 Oct 2027

Node.js 22 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 12 months, 25 Nov 202725 Nov 2027

Kubernetes 1.34 end of extended support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 13 months, Dec 2027Dec 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

SLES 15 SP5 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 13 months, Dec 2027Dec 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

SLES 15 SP5 image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 13 months, 22 Dec 202722 Dec 2027

Kubernetes 1.37 end of standard support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 15 months, 11 Feb 202811 Feb 2028

Kubernetes 1.35 end of extended support

GCPGoogle Kubernetes EngineEnd of support

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In about 16 months, Mar 2028Mar 2028 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

COS 129 LTS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 17 months, Apr 2028Apr 2028 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 9.4 for SAP image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 17 months, Apr 2028Apr 2028 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 17 months, 24 Apr 202824 Apr 2028

Python 3.11 decommission

GCPCloud RunRetirement

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In about 2 years, May 2028May 2028 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 9.8 EUS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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In about 2 years, May 2028May 2028 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

RHEL 10.2 EUS image end of support

GCPCompute EngineEnd of support

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